Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franco's actions told the world what his words meant in military terms. He mobilized his forces-not on his northern borders, where the Germans might enter Spain, but in the south, where Gibraltar and the Allies in North Africa may be attacked from the rear...
...Spanish Morocco, at General Dwight Eisenhower's rear, Franco has increased his garrisons from about 135,000 to 180,000 men. Ill-equipped and poor though Spain is, some of the forces in Spanish Morocco are partially mechanized. Many are Moors, who are among the world's best soldiers...
...reloaded and he fired. He figured he threw about 300 lead punches. Out of ammunition, the men in the crater crouched and prayed. At dawn the prize fighter jumped out under cover of a cloud of smoke and, "half crawling and half walking," helped get the wounded to the rear. His purse: shell shock, malaria, minor shrapnel wounds, a corporal's rank, recommendation for a distinguished service award. His only complaint: "No referee to break the clinches...
Among the speakers at the dedication were U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran, venereal disease enemy No. 1, and Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, who will head the hospital until a permanent director is chosen. Rear Admiral John Downes, commandant of the Ninth Naval District and Major General Henry S. Aurand, commanding officer of the Sixth Service Command, were on hand to congratulate the city on its "positive stand" on venereal disease-the center is expected to reduce the dangers of infection among service men in the Chicago district...
...explaining the rules. . . . Thirty minutes of play constituted the equivalent of a day's fighting; during the '20s, Geddes and his friends played it every Wednesday from eight in the evening until midnight. Some wars lasted two or three years. . . . The game occasionally took a tragic turn. Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, long a regular player, lost eight capital ships one night and was so humiliated that he never returned. Another friend, after being court-martialed one evening for losing an entire army, lay on a sofa and cried...